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About Tess

Tess Almendárez Lojacono

Tess Almendárez Lojacono is a writer, business owner and a teacher. Her company, Fine Art Miracles, seeks to accomplish two goals:

  1. to bring attention to the underserved through fine art education and
  2. to embrace humanity in the elucidation of common experiences and emotions.

She has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. International Family Magazine has named her Editor of its Latin Families Column, where you can find her work along with the work of other latin writers. Tess’ poems and stories have won awards with the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Contests. Her work has appeared in OffCourse, a literary journey, in The Cortland Review, Flash Fiction Online, Falling Star Magazine, The Shine Journal, A Fly In Amber, Joyful!, Etchings, Envoy Magazine, Words and Images and in Silver Boomer Books’ anthology, From The Porch Swing. Her first novel, Milagros, was published in February 2011, by Laughing Cactus Press.

Tess resides with her husband and daughters in East Aurora, New York.